Revolving table for tile-mills



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M. NOLAN.

REVOLVING TABLE FOR TILE MILLS. No. 251,376. Patented Dec. 27,1881.

WITNESSES.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MICHAEL NOLAN, OF RUSHVILLE, INDIANA.

REVOLVING TABLE FOR TILE-MILLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 251,376, dated December 27, 1881.

Application filed October 11, 188].

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, MICHAEL NOLAN, of

Rushville, county of Bush, and State of Indi-.

ana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Revolving Tables for Tile-Mills, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my said invention is to produce adevice to be attached to tile-mills, which shall receive the tiles as they come from the machine and sustain them in proper shape until they can be removed therefrom, and whereby said tiles can be turned on end before the said removal, thus securing them against the danger of being deformed by flattening which exists when they are allowed to lie on their sides. This obj'ectis accomplished by providing afourarmed device, which is located in front of the orifice through which the clay cylinder issues from the machine in such relation as to just receive the end of said cylinder, and which may be revolved as each tile is cut off, substantially as will be hereinafter more specifically described.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which are madea part hereof, and on which similar letters of reference indicate similar parts, Figure l is a perspective view of a machine to which my improved attachment is applied Fig. 2, a top or plan view of said attachment; Fig. 3, a central vertical section thereof on the dotted line w 00, and Fig. 4 a detail section through the catch on the dotted line y y.

In said drawings the portions marked A represent that portion of the frame of the tile-mill on which my improved device is mounted; B, the shaft of said device; 0, a four-armed spider for rotating the same; D, the arms thereof 'E, flat pieces of considerable size secured to said arms; F, loose boards or pallets, which rest upon said fiat pieces; Gr, concave rests secured to the opposite sides of the arms D; H, a completed tile resting upon my device, and I the clay cylinder issuing from the machine.

The shaftB rests in bearings or boxes on the frame A, and carries a hub having the four arms D, which, as is shown in Fig. 2, are preferably narrow to avoid too great a weight of material,they being preferably of iron. To one side of each of these arms is secured a rest, G, to receive the tile as it comes from the machine, and which is preferably of semicircular form,

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so as to maintain the shape of said tile until they are turned to an upright position. To the other side of the arms D are preferably secured boards E, (though the arms might be made wider instead, if desired,) which form rests for the pallets F, which receive the tiles as the device is revolved, and upon which they are carried away.

The shaft B is revolved by a four-armed spider, 0, the arms of which are in such relation to the arms D that when one arm of the spider is fastened by the catch 0 one of the rests G will be in proper position to receive a tile from the machine.

The catch 0 is preferably a spring formed as shown in Fig. 4, and thus adapted to automatically receive and retain each arm of the spider as it comes around until the same is purposelydisengaged, which may be done by pushing the spring back.

The spider and. spring-catch are intended to be operated by hand by the person who man ages the machine.

The pallets F are intended to be numerous enough to allowone to every tile made during the period that intervenes between the time of making any given tile and the time when it can be safely removed from its pallet. One is inserted in upright position each time my device is turned one-fourth around, and is removed with the tile thereon,when the device is moved again, bringing it into horizontal position, as is shown in Fig. 1, and so on indefinitely.

The advantage of turning the tile on end before attempting to remove them from the machine will be readily understood, as it is well known that while green tile are upon their sides it is difficult to prevent them from becoming flattened or otherwise deformed by handling, while after they are once placed upon a pallet in upright position they can be carried anywhere without danger, accidents excepted.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combination with a tile-mill, a revolving table. adapted to receive the tile on their sides as they issue horizontally from the mill, and to raise them on end before they are removed therefrom, substantially as set forth.

2. In combination with a tile-mill, a fourarmed revolving table, one side of each arm bein g formed to act as a rest for the newly-formed tile and the other adapted to sustain a pallet on which the tile shall be received on end as 5 the table revolves, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, with the revolving table of a tile mill, of the spider G on the same shaft as said table, the arms of which are consecutively caught and retained by the catch 0 as IO said table revolves, which is thus secured in proper position to receive the tiles, substantially as set forth.

4. In combination with a tile-mill, a revolving table, the surface of one side of each wing being concave and the other flat, substantially '15 as shown, and for the purposes specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal at Indianapolis, Indiana, this 7th day of October, A. D. 1881.

MICHAEL NOLAN.

In presence of- O. BRADFORD, S. H. THOMAS. 

